Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
Ed Zitron, CEO of EZPR and founder of EZ Primary Research, warns that the massive AI infrastructure spending by Microsoft and Amazon masks a risky bet, arguing that much of the capital expenditure sup…
Microsoft has introduced SharePoint Skills, a feature that lets users create reusable, multi-step AI workflows within SharePoint using natural language. The tool, managed via the site's Agent Assets l…
Microsoft's Copilot Studio now supports Skills, modular Markdown-based prompts with YAML metadata that can include Python scripts for deterministic outcomes. A developer highlights how Skills reduce t…
A New York Times investigation into Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison's artificial intelligence strategy reveals that his $100 billion AI infrastructure bet, including a massive data center in Texas,…
Microsoft's Project Perception, entering public preview on August 3, uses AI agents to automate up to 90% of security tasks, according to SecurityWeek. The system, built around Microsoft's in-house MA…
Microsoft retired GitHub Models on July 30, 2026, shutting down the playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key endpoints for all users, including paying customers, after only 29 …
An academic in an AI-related department for five years describes feeling emotionally exhausted and complicit as AI infiltrates universities, accusing AI companies of enabling genocide in Palestine and…
Nearly 30% of professional credentials reported on U.S.-based LinkedIn accounts are now AI-related, up from just 1% to 2% before ChatGPT's 2022 release, according to a recent analysis. Job seekers are…
New Zealand's Green Party has proposed a one-year pause on new AI data centres, mirroring a moratorium in New York state, as part of the country's election campaign. Technology writer Peter Griffin ex…
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have committed nearly $2.4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending, while Bitcoin miners like IREN, Hut 8, TeraWulf, and Core Scientific have signed AI contracts w…
At the 2026 Posette event, run by Microsoft's Postgres team, experts highlighted integrating Postgres with AI, including building Model Context Protocol servers for safe AI agent queries, and showcase…
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft spent $170 billion on data centers in a single quarter, a 72% increase year-over-year, and are on track to spend $1.5 trillion by end of 2027, according to Wall S…
Microsoft's largest real-world field study of AI coding agents, covering tens of thousands of engineers over four months, found that adopters of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI merged 24% more pull…
Microsoft has raised Xbox console prices in the EU and UK by up to €200 or £170, with the 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive increasing over 30% from £499.99 / €599.99 to £669.99 / €799.99, and the 5…
Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Meta posted record quarterly revenues, with Microsoft at $90.01 billion, Amazon at $200.61 billion, Apple at $109.42 billion, and Meta at $60.80 billion, while AI capital…
Statcounter's July 2026 data shows Linux at 10.65% desktop market share in North America, the first time it has exceeded 10%, but the figure is likely inflated by reclassification of 'Unknown' OS traf…
Microsoft released Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), an MIT-licensed, Public Preview toolkit that enforces policy, identity, sandboxing, and SRE for autonomous AI agents, covering all 10 OWASP Agentic T…
Microsoft is testing a new native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, which has appeared as a hidden early-access entry in its MAI Playground. The bidirectional, full-duplex system, which listens and…
Amazon's long-term debt has nearly doubled to $128.9 billion from about $65 billion, driven by a capital expenditure spree that includes a raised 2026 capex guidance of $220 billion and a $25 billion …
On July 27, China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful AI model, Kimi K3, as free open-source software, allowing any government, company, or individual to run and retrain it without paying licensi…